Motivational Quotes

Gossip

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

- Smith, Liz

Best Quotes about Gossip

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Proverb, Jewish

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Rumor grows as it goes.

Virgil

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

Jonathan Haidt

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Rogers, Will

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Hugo, Victor

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

Crane, George W.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverb, Jewish

Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them.

Monica Fairview

10.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

West, Rebecca

12.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Eliot, George

13.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

Harvey, William

14.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell

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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Pope, Alexander

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Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.

Stuart, Edwin H.

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At every word a reputation dies.

Pope, Alexander

19.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

John Tudor

20.

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

21.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Pascal, Blaise

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There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.

Dyke, Henry Van

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A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

Kirk, Lisa

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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elder

25.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Adams, James Truslow

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No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney

27.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Phocion

28.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Smith, Liz

29.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Steele, Sir Richard

30.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Ouida

31.

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Shriner, Herb

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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

Mencken, H. L.

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A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.

Proverb, American

34.

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

35.

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

Barker, Myrtle

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Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

William Shakespeare

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Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Jong, Erica

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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

Fuller, Thomas

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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Jong, Erica

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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Fielding, Henry

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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Levi, Primo

44.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

45.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Drew, Elizabeth

46.

Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

Walters, Barbara

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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.